The weirdest thing happened to my 168000 dial...

[maestroa12349]

I am building a franken 168000 out of a TC midcase and a Gen 1987 93150 bracelet. I kept these two parts after selling two previous watches, only keeping the case and bracelet from each different watch.

The 168000 is such an interesting goal as it had such a short run in Rolex history. Luckily for me, 1987 is right in that run so it worked out.

I purchased a Gen dial with ‘water damage’, but I liked the look of it and went for it anyway. I was testing out the water resistance of the watch yesterday and really fumbled as I was not only dumb enough to test it with the whole watch assembled (I trusted its water resistance as I had previously had a build in this case) and also failed to screw the crown all the way down.

The outcome of the dial’s steam bath is that now it seems the water damage has lifted away and I am left with a speckled tropical dial... I am not sure why or how but I suppose not all consequences are bad...

PS: ignore the maxi hands, I am still waiting on Gen hands to arrive so these got thrown in for now

Before:

Afterwards:

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[ken123]

it s very nice

 

[EuroTime25]

Rolex would call this Special edition and add 10k to the price lol.

 

[Atmosphere]

Rolex would call this Special edition and add 10k to the price lol.

and we'd be drooling over it

 

[Perpetual]

Nice sub mate! Hey look at the bright side nownyou got yourself a tropical dial sub

ps: mine did very well at water proofing at the beach! Fully submerged and swimming beach pool all that with no worries!!

cheers

 

[maestroa12349]

Nice sub mate! Hey look at the bright side nownyou got yourself a tropical dial sub

ps: mine did very well at water proofing at the beach! Fully submerged and swimming beach pool all that with no worries!!

cheers

You’re not wrong there mate... Love the look of your shark LB insert! Beautiful combo you’ve got


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[Perpetual]

You’re not wrong there mate... Love the look of your shark LB insert! Beautiful combo you’ve got


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Thank you!! It went well for swimming summet events

 

[bc1221]

Looks better than it did before tbh.
The ONLY 2 things I would recommend is leave the watch open and add some silicon moisture absorber packs. The lume can hold a lot of water (I found this out the hard way). If you hold that watch up to some heat, the crystal may fog up so I would definitely leave it out of the case for a day or 2.

I would also add a small drop of binder on the lume plots so they don’t crumble off once they’re completely dried out. Trust me on this one. lol I’ve had lume just crumble all over the dial before just because they got a little water on them and then dried.

If you don’t have any binder, just go buy some clear drying Elmer’s glue (water based). This will be easy to apply and if you get a little drop where you didn’t mean to, you can just peel it off.

Either way, great build.

Mine says hi.

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[McDuck888]

I love the look of your dial even moreso now than the before. Really cool. It's like your dial has adopted a diver's little air bubbles. 'Submariner' to the max! haha

 

[Thecloudhopper]

Hi, how is this build coming along?


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[Watchnerd69]

One of the best 16800 for Sure!


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